On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Bob James wrote:
> addresses for the AppleTalk portion of the network. I want the Linux
> machine to do that now. In the atalk.conf file, I placed this line:
>
> eth0 -phase 2 -addr 5001.110 -net 5001-5003 -zone "Joiner"
>
> which mirrored the setup from the old NetWare box. However, when I try
> to start the service, the server reported that it could not register
> the addresses. I removed the line, but it still failed, this time due
> to the fact that the machine has two NICs, and one of the segments
> does not have Appletalk running on it. So I placed just eth0 in the
> atalkd.conf, and it worked, but with an address of 65280/70. How is it
> arriving at that address, and why can't I stipulate the address range?
You'll need to grab one of the pre2.1.4 releases to support it, but adding
"-router" right after "eth0" in your atalkd.conf file will make your
netatalk machine seed the network. You can get the latest release from:
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/asun/testing/
Andy
